9:00 – 9:30 Coffee
9:30 – 10:00 WELCOME, PURPOSE & LOGISTICS
Peter Van Reeth, University College London and Paavo Pylkkänen, University of Helsinki
TOPIC 1, Dynamic Universe 1
10:00 - 10:30
Tuomo Suntola, Physics Foundations Society, Espoo:
Introduction to the Dynamic Universe (DU), part 1
10:30 - 10:50 Discussion
TOPIC 2, Dark Energy
11:00 – 11:30
Ofer Lahav, University College London:
Is Dark energy evolving?
11:30 – 12:15 Discussion + coffee
with comments by Petri Lievonen and Tuomo Suntola
TOPIC 3, Bridging Quantum and Classical Physics
12:15 – 13:00
Tarja Kallio-Tamminen, Physics Foundations Society, Espoo:
Clarifying the content of Planck’s constant
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (provided on site)
14:00-14:50
Petri Lievonen, Physics Foundations Society, Espoo:
DU and the Dirac equation
TOPIC 4, The Quantum Potential Approach
15:00 – 15:50
Chris Dewdney, University of Portsmouth:
What have we learnt from de Broglie-Bohm trajectories?
16:00 – 16:30
Paavo Pylkkänen, University of Helsinki and University of Skövde:
Can active information solve key problems in the Bohm theory?
16:30 – 16:45
Comment by Ron Chrisley, University of Sussex
16:45 – 18:00 General discussion
19:00-21:30
WORKSHOP DINNER FOR INVITED GUESTS
Woburn Place Dining Room, Hilton London Euston,
9.30 - 10.00 Coffee
TOPIC 5, Physics at Scales where Quantum Theory and General Relativity Overlap
10:00 – 11:00
Ivette Fuentes, University of Southampton and Wolfson College, University of Oxford:
Clocks in the overlap of quantum theory and relativity
TOPIC 6, Dynamic Universe 2
11:00 - 11:30
Tuomo Suntola, Physics Foundations Society, Espoo:
Clocks in the Dynamic Universe
11:30 - 11:50 Discussion + coffee
TOPIC 7, Dark Matter
12:00 – 12:30
Chamkaur Ghag University College London:
Dark matter
TOPIC 8, Non-Classical Gravity
12:30 – 13:00
Sougato Bose, University College London:
Testing the non-classicality of gravity
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (provided on site)
TOPIC 9, Gravitational Waves
14:00 – 14:30
Robert Flack, University College London:
Noise test of an EM antenna for low frequency scattered gravitational wave
TOPIC 10, DeWitt on the Quantum Potential and the Invariance of the Hamiltonian Operator
14:30 – 15:00
Lindon Neil, ARC ratings:
Comments on Bryce DeWitt’s 1952 paper “Point Transformations in Quantum Mechanics”
TOPIC 11, Visualizations of Cosmology
15:00 – 15:30
Hamish Todd, Traceoid:
3-spheres and the de Sitter universe
TOPIC 12, Dynamic space, Aristotelian potentiality and Hiley’s Clifford algebra methods
15:30 – 16:00
Calum Robson, London School of Economics:
Spacetime as potential via Clifford algebras
16:30 – 18:00 Concluding discussion:Evaluation criteria for physical theories
facilitated by Avril Styrman, University of Helsinki